*CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* for sustainable production intensification Dear Subscribers, Please see below a self-expalnatory message from Professor Sjoerd Duiker from Pennsylvania State University regarding a couple of haymaking videos showing the integration of grass leys into CA -- zero-grazing dairy for smallholders *Amir Kassam **Moderator* Plant Production and Protection Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome Italy e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sjoerd Willem Duiker <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 12:52 PM Subject: Integration of grass leys into CA -- zero-grazing dairy for smallholders To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]> Hi Amir: How is it going? I wonder if I ever sent you a link to these haymaking videos. I just did a training in Uganda that was well received. The director of NAADS wants to place a haybaler in every district for demonstration purposes. We hope we can expand this technology to increase dairy production. We have not explored much the integration of grass leys into CA but I think there is great potential. The soil improvement achieved with a few years of grass leads to a well-established yield increase as has been shown many times. After many tries perhaps this can now be more widely adopted as zero-grazing dairy increases in importance. Many greetings, Sjoerd *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1scGHhJAas * *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7G1Atq2N5U * ******************************************************** *Sjoerd W. Duiker, PhD, CCA Associate Professor of Soil Management and Applied Soil Physics Penn State Cooperative Extension, Department of Plant Science The Pennsylvania State University 408 ASI Building University Park, PA 16802 USA Tel 814-8637637 Cell 814-4042605 Email [log in to unmask] ********************************************************* ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);